Practitioner specialty table

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title: Practitioner specialty table
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# Practitioner specialty table

The Practitioner specialty \[sn\_hcls\_practitioner\_specialty\] table stores the association details of a specialty with a practitioner.

## Key features

-   Links the practitioner to multiple care specialties that the practitioner specializes in.
-   Enables supported care specialties models in the Healthcare code set \[sn\_hcls\_code\_set\] table.
-   Provides a reference to the practitioner and the code set of type care specialty.
-   Includes a reference to the practitioner type \(also modeled as a code set\).
-   Enables indicating whether location is the primary specialty for a practitioner.

Role required to configure the table: sn\_hcls.admin.

For more information, see [Healthcare and Life Sciences data model]().

<table id="table_rj5_svs_mpb"><thead><tr><th>

Field

</th><th>

Data type

</th><th>

Description

</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>

Active

</td><td>

True/False

</td><td>

Option to indicate whether the specialty is associated with the practitioner.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Practitioner

</td><td>

Reference

</td><td>

Person added as the practitioner.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Practitioner type

</td><td>

Reference

</td><td>

Type of the practitioner.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Source

</td><td>

Reference

</td><td>

Source system details of an external healthcare system in a ServiceNow instance.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Specialty

</td><td>

Reference

</td><td>

Specialty of the practitioner.

</td></tr></tbody>
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